gender critical

English

Adjective

gender critical (comparative more gender critical, superlative most gender critical)

1. Alternative form of gender-critical.
   • 2019 April 1, Carol Hay, “Who Counts as a Woman?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Reissued in 1994, the book continues to inspire “gender-critical” or “trans-exclusionary” radical feminists — TERFs, for short.

   • 2019 July 17, Mary Zawacki, “Is There a Future for Girls in Girls’ Sports?”, in The Wall Street Journal:

     As a gender-critical feminist, I believe gender is a social construct and, like most scientists and biologists, that sex is binary.

   • 2018 August 12, Peter J Reilly, “Why Gender-Critical Radical Feminists Might Want A Church And Why IRS Approved”, in Forbes‎^[2]:

     If the forty year conflict between gender critical radical feminists and transgender activists is news to you, you are probably not alone. Most of the action has been inside a radical progressive bubble.

2. Alternative form of gender-critical: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gender,‎ critical.

Noun

gender critical (plural gender criticals)

1. (informal) A person who holds gender-critical beliefs.

   Synonyms: GC, GCF, gendercrit, gendercritter (derogatory), TERF, terven

   • 2014 October 29, Danny Birb (@transvulcan), Twitter‎^[3]:

     Word on the street is gender criticals have started using "male to trans" and "female to trans" to describe trans people...

   • 2023, Grace Lavery, “The Egg and the Essay”, in Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 128:

     That Sedgwick's case for foundationalist gayness incorporates both the arguments and the premises avowed by Stock and the other gender criticals would likely unnerve everyone except for Reed.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gender critical.